Major in STEM brehs...

[patscorpio]

Yep. My wife damn near left the program because of that class. My brother in-law took the accelerated route too. Said that was the roughest 18 months of his life.

yeah..that period of her life was easily the most tumultuous time in the 8+ plus years we've been together..that period really tested our relationship unexpectedly..tempers were short like a motherfukker

 

[AB Ziggy]

What do you think people in Bio do? I'm always amazed how easy people think Bio is like it doesn't include genetics, biochem, physics, hard stats.

Anyway, the only class that ever had me shook was molecular bio. Orgo, p-chem, genetics, cell bio, loved it but that molecular bio damned near threatened by gpa.

I will say that looking back, I wish I'd stuck with engineering solely for comp sci classes ( and that huge paycheck for my gap years). I'm finding I REALLY like doing science with that quantitative edge. I'm currently learning R and Python and the power behind those programs for ANY type of data is amazing. Has me thinking I should go back to school for bioinformatics rather than immunology or at least do a dual program for that type of thing. One girl I work with is a Neuroscience PhD candidate and she's already looking at industry offers for 100k+ doing brain genomics stuff.

Biology is mostly heavy memorization, it's not really much applied science compared to chem and physics.

 

[Serious]

What do you think people in Bio do? I'm always amazed how easy people think Bio is like it doesn't include genetics, biochem, physics, hard stats.

Anyway, the only class that ever had me shook was molecular bio. Orgo, p-chem, genetics, cell bio, loved it but that molecular bio damned near threatened by gpa.

I will say that looking back, I wish I'd stuck with engineering solely for comp sci classes ( and that huge paycheck for my gap years). I'm finding I REALLY like doing science with that quantitative edge. I'm currently learning R and Python and the power behind those programs for ANY type of data is amazing. Has me thinking I should go back to school for bioinformatics rather than immunology or at least do a dual program for that type of thing. One girl I work with is a Neuroscience PhD candidate and she's already looking at industry offers for 100k+ doing brain genomics stuff.

Bioinformatics is hot along with biostatistics.....

 

[Serious]

Biology is mostly heavy memorization, it's not really much applied science compared to chem and physics.

 

[AB Ziggy]

i remember in college in the campus paper..someone posted an article bashing majors like sociology, psychology, and communications as being non serious...mad students were uppppppppp-set..including my roommate who was a communications major.

*edit isnt psychology considered STEM now?

Of course thays gonna get mad people upset. Especially a lot of student athletes whose coaches push em to choose the easy majors to keep their GPAs in check.

 

[Gold]

assembly i hated that language...it was a bytch to program in

1 + 1 in any high level language = 1 line of code. Maybe 2 if you want a system print out.

1 + 1 in Assembly = like 17 lines of code

Gotta call a memory address
Load the data point "1" into that address
Call another memory address
Load the 2nd "1"
Recall the those 1 memory address
Binary add using the Operation code for addition (which changes based on the processors instruction set)
Store that value into a third memory address
Call that memory address

And then, if you want to print it out so you can actually see your answer.... well


Assembly will have you celebrating the basic shyt. I would be over there like "I just did 2x2+4 !!!!"

My roommate probably like "This nikka remedial..... "

 

[AB Ziggy]

I was a bio major my freshman and sophomore year. Got tired of reading 4-5 chapters for 3 class exams and not doing much else besides understanding it. And doing techniques like PCR in lab eventually gets old just copying steps from professor-edited manuals.

That's why i went biochem, much more stimulating for my interests.

 

[staticshock]

chem, stay general don't limit yourself.

What can you do with a chem degree?

 

[staticshock]

I was a bio major my freshman and sophomore year. Got tired of reading 4-5 chapters for 3 class exams and not doing much else besides understanding it. And doing techniques like PCR in lab eventually gets old just copying steps from professor-edited manuals.

That's why i went biochem, much more stimulating for my interests.

What type of jobs can you get with a biochem major?

 

[Serious]

Of course thays gonna get mad people upset. Especially a lot of student athletes whose coaches push em to choose the easy majors to keep their GPAs in check.

Those are easy majors though, compared with the amount of rigor and studying that's involved in chemistry, physics, engineering.

I mean when I did my electives, I literally studied the night before exams, and would pass with 90% or above.
Try studying for a chemistry exam the night before(of course there will always be that one breh on here who's an outlier )
Not to mention my classes usually had weekly quizzes, along with an exam every 2-3 weeks. My general education electives literally only had a mid term and final.

 

[The Plug]

I know the feeling, math classes in STEM are the hard part.

 

[patscorpio]

1 + 1 in any high level language = 1 line of code. Maybe 2 if you want a system print out.

1 + 1 in Assembly = like 17 lines of code

Gotta call a memory address
Load the data point "1" into that address
Call another memory address
Load the 2nd "1"
Recall the those 1 memory address
Binary add using the Operation code for addition (which changes based on the processors instruction set)
Store that value into a third memory address
Call that memory address

And then, if you want to print it out so you can actually see your answer.... well


Assembly will have you celebrating the basic shyt. I would be over there like "I just did 2x2+4 !!!!"

My roommate probably like "This nikka remedial..... "

you aint never fukking lied...here is an example of the above

i used to do shyt in JCL and COBOL on mainframes for an internship i did years ago and i thought those languages were archaic but assembly takes the cake

 

[AB Ziggy]

Those are easy majors though, compared with the amount of rigor and studying that's involved in chemistry, physics, engineering.

I mean when I did my electives, I literally studied the night before exams, and would pass with 90% or above.
Try studying for a chemistry exam the night before(of course there will always be that one breh on here who's an outlier )
Not to mention my classes usually had weekly quizzes, along with an exam every 2-3 weeks. My general education electives literally only had a mid term and final.

I never disagreed with you breh.

 

[Serious]

What can you do with a chem degree?

Lab tech

Spoiler

But you'll probably need a masters(industry) or professional program(med school,PA school,health etc) to land a job, unless you just want to be a teacher. But some employers like people with science degrees, because there's a certain level of "intelligence" or "commitment"(hard work) required to have one

 

[Gold]

you aint never fukking lied...here is an example of the above

i used to do shyt in JCL and COBOL on mainframes for an internship i did years ago and i thought those languages were archaic but assembly takes the cake

Breh, nightmares


I still have PCSPIM on my computer at home. I'm afraid to even delete it. If it doesn't bother me, I wont bother it


You worked with COBOL? How old are you breh?